Lidiane Lopes
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Nationality | Cape Verdean | ||||||||||
Born | 1 September 1994 | ||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) (2016)[1] | ||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) (2016)[1] | ||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 metres 200 metres | ||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 100 metres: 12.38[2] 200 metres: 25.53[2] | ||||||||||
Medal record
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Lidiane Lopes (born 1 September 1994) is a Cape Verdean sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres.[1] She is the current Cape Verdean record holder in the 100-metre sprint.[3] Lopes has competed at both the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.[4] At both Olympics, she competed in the 100 metres.[1][5] She has also competed in a World Championships, a World Junior Championships, a World Youth Championships, a Jeux de la Francophonie, a Lusophony Games, an African Games, and an Ibero-American Athletics Championships.
Competition[]
2011–12[]
Lopes' debut at an international athletics competition was at the 2011 World Youth Championships, where she competed in the .[6] She finished last in her heat and ran a personal best time of 26.69 seconds.[6] She did not progress to the semi-final round.[7] She then competed at the 2012 World Junior Championships in the 100 metres.[8] She was disqualified from her heat and therefore did not race again at the competition.[6]
2012 Summer Olympics[]
Lopes' next major competition was the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[5] She qualified and competed in the 100 metres.[5] For the preliminary round, she was drawn in heat four.[9] In the heat of nine athletes,[9] Lopes finished fourth in a time of 12.72 seconds.[10] She was 1.12 seconds slower than the heat winner, Toea Wisil of Papua New Guinea.[9] Overall, Lopes' time was the 17th fastest in the preliminary round.[11] She did not progress to the heat round proper.[11] By competing at the 2012 Games, she became the youngest Cape Verdean to compete at an Olympic Games at an age of 17 years and 337 days.[12]
2013–16[]
At the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie, Lopes competed in both the 100 metres and 200 metres.[13] In the 100 metres she ran a time of 12.85 seconds and finished second last overall with of Seychelles the only athlete slower than her.[13] Lopes did not progress to the final.[13] In the 200 metres, Lopes came last in a time of 26.17 seconds and did not qualify for the final.[13] At the 2014 Lusophony Games, Lopes finished fourth in the 100 metres; in a time of 12.49 seconds; and she won the silver medal in the 200 metres; in a time of 25.07 seconds.[14][15] In her medal winning event, the 200 metres, she finished 0.07 seconds behind Indian .[15] The 2015 World Championships was Lopes' first senior World Championships.[4] She competed in the 100 metres and finished last in her heat with a Cape Verdean national record time of 12.43 seconds.[16] Overall, she was the 49th fastest out of 53 athletes and she did not progress to the semi-final round.[17] At the 2015 African Games, Lopes finished 27th overall in the 100 metres in a time of 12.55 seconds and 29th overall in the 200 metres in a time of 25.53 seconds.[18][19] Lopes' next major competition was the 2016 Ibero-American Athletics Championships.[20] She competed in the 100 metres and finished last overall in a time of 12.67 seconds.[20]
2016 Summer Olympics[]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lopes competed in the 100 metres.[1] For the preliminary round, she was drawn in heat two, a heat containing seven other athletes alongside Lopes.[21] In the race on 12 August 2016, she ran a time of 12.38 seconds.[22] Lopes' time was a new Cape Verdean national record.[3][22] After the race she told : "I have no words. I'm very happy".[3] Lopes' time was the 9th fastest out of 24 athletes in the preliminary round;[23] her time was 0.04 seconds slower than the slowest athlete to progress to the next round and, therefore, she was eliminated.[23]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e "Lidiane Lopes". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Lidiane Lopes". All Athletics. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b c "Rio 2016: Lidiane Lopes brakes the national record". . Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Lidiane Lopes". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b c "Lidiane Lopes". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b c "200 Metres Girls – Heats – Results". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ "200 Metres Girls – Heats – Summary". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ "100 Metres Women – Heats – Results". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b c "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Startlist". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Results". IAAF. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Summary". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ "Cape Verde". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Athletics – Results" (PDF). Agence universitaire de la Francophonie. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ "3rd Lusofonia Games 2014 – Day 1" (PDF). Athletics Federation of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b "3rd Lusofonia Games 2014 – Day 3" (PDF). Athletics Federation of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ "100 Metres Women – Heats Results". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ "100 Metres Women – Heats – Summary". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ "Results Summary – 100 m – Women – First Round" (PDF). Brazzaville 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ "Results Summary – 200 m – Women – First Round" (PDF). Brazzaville 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Results" (PDF). Brazil 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Startlist". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Results". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- ^ a b "100 Metres Women – Preliminary Round – Summary". IAAF. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Cape Verdean female sprinters
- Olympic athletes of Cape Verde
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 African Games
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Cape Verde
- People from Sal, Cape Verde
- African Games competitors for Cape Verde
- Olympic female sprinters